Wisconsinites guests of honor at State of the Union address

Officer, brewery owner witness Obama speech from first lady's box

2:40 AM,
Feb. 13, 2013

President Barack Obama, flanked by Vice President Joe Biden and House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, delivers his State of the Union address Tuesday during a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.

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In his fourth State of the Union address, President Barack Obama urged Americans to follow the example set by an Oak Creek police officer wounded in the Sikh temple shooting last August.

Near the end of his more than hourlong speech laying out his agenda for a second term, Obama said the action of Lt. Brian Murphy was the kind of selfless act that has made America great and should be replicated.

"When a gunman opened fire on a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, and Brian was the first to arrive, and he did not consider his own safety," Obama told millions of viewers. "He fought back until help arrived and ...